Depleting Your Opponent’s Trump Cards

As any experienced player knows though quality of trump cards may be a good thing, quantity is always better. Taking full advantage of this fact means that players will have to consider using strategy and tactics that will deplete the opposing team’s trump cards early on. This task takes a number of different forms. Sometimes it is an uphill battle and other times it’s as easy as sliding down a slope.

The best and most reliable way of depleting your opponent’s trump cards is to play methodically and scrutinize which suits opponents are weak in. The rules of Klaverjassen state that if a player can’t follow a trick, meaning he or she can’t put down a card with the same suit, he or she is forced to trump over, meaning put down a trump card. Trumping over effectively reduces the opposing team’s cache of trump cards. The only way to do this as soon as possible is to discover the opposing teams weakest suit then make them pay dearly for lacking numerical superiority in said suit. Remember, the sooner you can deplete the opposing team’s trump cards the lesser their options become as the game progresses. 

In a casual game of Klaverjassen, depleting the opposing team’s cache of trump cards is much easier than when one opts to do the same in an online Klaverjassen game. In a real game, players often do little things like slam cards on the table, hesitate when putting down a card or giving off small facial expressions of joy and frustration. Learning to notice such quirks helps a lot in a game where players are prohibited from talking to one another about their current game situation.

In Klaverjassen online, depleting an opposing team’s trump suit is as difficult as crossing a busy highway on foot. The task is perilous and would most likely end in failure unless players know what they’re doing. The most obvious reason as to why depleting an opponent’s trump suit in online Klaverjassen is so difficult is due to the fact the players won’t be able to see the opposing team’s little quirks. In this case, players are left with little choice other than to take the long way and experiment on all four suits to test which ones the opposing team is weakest in. Doing this method will eventually bring in results however not until a number of turns go by.